acúleo
[aˈkuleo]
The verdict
“acúleo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Órgano en punta, a menudo venenosa y punzante, que tienen animales como la avispa, la abeja, el escorpión y el ornitorrinco.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aculeo · acúleo · Spanish
acúleo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acúleo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈkuleo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “acúleo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
acúleo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈkuleo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for acúleo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is acúleo, spelled A-C-Ú-L-E-O.
Definition
- 1Órgano en punta, a menudo venenosa y punzante, que tienen animales como la avispa, la abeja, el escorpión y el ornitorrinco.
- 2Parte afilada que nace del tallo en algunas plantas y que, a diferencia de las espinas, se desprende fácilmente ya que está adherido a la piel y no es parte integral del tallo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.